The cult album that influenced Noel Gallagher: “I can hear me in it everywhere”
In 1986, one of Manchester’s great underrated bands put out a record that still sounds fresh today.
Author: Andrew Clayman Archives: 10/2024
John Lydon’s answer to Bob Dylan’s ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’: “But with less of the farting”
Recorded during the height of Public Image Ltd.
Ranking the songs on Talking Heads’ album ‘Speaking in Tongues’
It’s a ranking of nine things with few identifiable flaws. What could go wrong?!
The underrated artist Steve Van Zandt said was “right there with the rest of them”
Managed by Brian Epstein, produced by George Martin, and a cohort of Lennon and McCartney.
What was the first-ever electric musical instrument?
The origins of electronic music might go back a lot further than you think.
How Prince’s persistent lying led to one of his biggest hits
Taking his battle with the press to the masses…
“A little funky”: why Stephen Stills rubbed BBQ sauce into his strings
Cheeseburger grease and “blood” were also on the menu.
The bizarre tale of how a Disney Halloween album became a cult classic among musicians
A record with no songs, no princesses, and no mouse…
Why Iggy Pop is the godfather of punk, according to Iggy Pop
The subtle art of disowning and owning a genre.
The guitar John Paul Jones had made after getting jealous of Jimmy Page
Three necks, as everyone knows, is sexier than two.
